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King Tut was buried with a dagger made of an iron that literally came from space, says a new study into the composition of the iron blade from the sarcophagus of the boy king. Using non-invasive, portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, a team of Italian and Egyptian researchers confirmed that the iron of the dagger placed on the right thigh of King Tut’s mummified body a has meteoric origin. The team, which

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A huge fireball was spotted over Northeastern US yesterday. The American Meteor Society received nearly 700 witness reports about the meteor over Northeastern US. Reported sightings mainly came from Maine, but also came from Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ontario (Canada) and Québec (Canada). Reports put the event as around 12:50am EDT on May 17th 2016. See a video of the fireball below, caught by a police officer

Evidence of a huge asteroid strike that impacted Earth in its early life has been found by scientists. The discovery was made when spherules, tiny glass beads formed from material vaporised during the asteroid impact, were discovered in a drill core from Marble Bar, in north-western Australia.